Slide-loop for suspenders



(No Model.)

0. WILLIAMS.

SLIDE LOOP FOR SUS'PENDERS'. No. 375,240. PatentedDec. 20. 1887.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CHESTER WILLIAMS, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

SLIDE-LOOP FOR SUSPENDERS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 375,240, dated December 20, 1887.

Application filed May 9, 1885. Serial No. 164,883. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, CHESTER WILLIAMS, of Boston, in the county of Suffolk and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful Slide-Loop for Suspenders, of which the following is a full, clear, exact, and concise description, when taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, making part hereof.

My invention relates to the device by means of which the button-hole ends of suspenders are connected with the shoulder-straps, and through which such ends render with the least possible friction and without the aid of puleys. y

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 represents a side view of my slide-loop A, the button-hole end a, wire loop b, and shoulderstrap a of a pair of suspenders. Fig. 2 represents a front view of the slide-loop A, button-hole end a, wire loop b, and shoulder-strap c. Fig. 3 represents a transverse section of the slide-loop A, connecting wire loop b,and shoulder-strap 0.

Similar letters refer to similar partsthroughout the several views.

The slide-loop A (represented in Figs. 1, 2, and 3) is in the form of a plate bent back upon itself in such a way that the lower part forms a loop or passage, B, for the button-hole end a, and that the two ends of the plate are brought together and clasp the wire loop I) at 6, connecting the slide-loop A with the shoulderstrap 0. The lower part of the slide loop or passage B has its two sides, d d, perpendicular and parallel with their lower edges, slightly curved outward and its bottom curved like the broad rim of a pulley, and being slightly wider at its ends than in its center, as shown in Figs. 1 and 3. The slight curving of the lower edges of the part B is in order to prevent all unnecessary wearing or cutting of the button-hole ends.

The slide-loop A is made of brass or of any other rigid material.

It will be seen that with my invention either a flat or round, braided, or woven buttonhole end may be used with the least possible friction, and that my invention allows the button-hole ends to render freely without material wear, and to accommodate themselves to the varying strain upon them caused by the Varying positions of the wearer s body.

My invention may be used on either the front or back ends of the shoulder-straps, and will be found especially desirable in nonelastic suspenders and in the use of flat woven button-hole ends.

. What I claim as my invention is-- The rigid slide-loop A for suspenders with its two sides d d perpendicular and parallel, whose lower edges are slightly curved ontward, and its bottomfcurved in the shape of a broad rim of a pulley whose ends are slightly wider than its center, substantially as before set forth.

Witness my hand this 4th .day of May, A. D. 1885.

CHESTER WILLIAMS.

Witnesses:

I. E. PEARL, J. B. SMITH. 

